well the installation was successfull my only problem is whatever NIC i installed in the system it still can't detect the card. i don't wat to put fedora on my production server, my option is to replace my motherboard what board can you recommend? On 3/1/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > > Michael Best spake the following on 2/28/2006 9:49 AM: > > Cameron Showalter wrote: > >> Mark Quitoriano wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Guys, > >>> > >>> Im trying to install CentOS 4.2 server CD, my board is p5v800-MX and > for > >>> some weird reason it can't detect my built-in ethernet port. Can this > be > >>> resolved with newer kernel version. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Regards, > >>> Mark Quitoriano, CCNA > >> > >> > >> > >> Does centos install at all, but upon boot up not find the network card > >> at all? > >> > >> > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2915&forum=29 > >> > >> try knoppix or another cd based distros to see if the network card is > >> detected. > > > > Even as recently as the 2.6.14 kernel it appears to have limited > > support, and this user claims that only using the 2.6.15 did he get > > networking support. > > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-January/msg04097.html > > > > For a board this new Fedora Core is one of the few options that will > > likely work with it. And I'm generally very unhappy with having to > > upgrade Fedora Core so often. > > > > -Mike > If Fedora core is not to your liking, install a PCI nic, or wait for > CentOS 5 > which should be out when upstream releases their -5 version later this > year. > > -- > > MailScanner is like deodorant... > You hope everybody uses it, and > you notice quickly if they don't!!!! > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060301/3ed6096d/attachment-0002.html>